Hospitals at Risk of BeyondTrust Ransomware Hacks

Critical Vulnerability Could Give Attackers Foothold in Clinical Networks Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • February 20, 2026

U.S. federal authorities and industry officials are urging hospitals and to address a critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access software, which if exploited, could give an attacker a foothold inside a corporate network.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an alert Thursday warned healthcare and public health sector organizations to review and address the vulnerability in light of rising cyberattacks targeting those entities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 on Feb. 13 to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities and gave federal agencies just three ...